action post ☁ june 8

[clearasil]

The Long Island Sound looks like a good place to be today, gleaming under the sun. A few kids are already in the water and a few Aphrodite kids lounge on the stand with tins and sunscreen. Natalie sits on a towel and pulls off her camp shirt and denim shorts to reveal an electric blue two piece, pulling her curly hair into a ponytail. Before Natalie became a year-rounder, she was a competitive swimmer in middle school and from time to time she misses it. So why not honor Poseidon at the same time?

She rubs some sunscreen over her shoulders, nose and legs and takes a few steps back to get a running start.

Within seconds, she's fully submerged in the water, happily swimming away from the shore. 

[iris message] June 8, 2012, afternoon

[wokethedragon]

[It had been some time since Daenerys had last seen her older brother, and she was beginning to feel a little freer at the camp. Today is the day of the monthly festival to Poseidon, and it's the first one in a long time where it was actually nice enough outside, despite the camp-controlled weather of the Long Island Sound, to even think of celebrating by doing something out on the water.

She's been at the sound all morning, watching the saltwater nereids play in the water on the day dedicated to their lord. Dany had always enjoyed the days to Poseidon, but her brother was always very clear before that she was not to venture too far out into the sound. Nereids, he said, were dangerous creatures that lured people from their boats to their deaths, and she was not to interact with them unless she wanted to wake the dragon inside him and face his wrath.

But her brother was, despite his heritage, quite ignorant to the facts placed before him at times. Nereids were usually calm towards people who did not mean them harm. He was thinking of monstrous sirens, and as far as she knew, those creatures did not reside at the camp.

She makes a rainbow with the saltwater lapping against the shores of the sound and a clear beach rock.]

On this festival day, I would go to meet the nereids in the sound and learn their ways. I am not experienced in boating, though, and they seem to be quite far out. Would someone take me to them? Anyone wishing to see the nymphs in person may come along as well.